Psalm 109

Psalms · Chapter 109

Psalms 109:17

1Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.3They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.4For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.5And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.6Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.7When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.8Let his days be few; and let another take his office.9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.12Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.13Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.15Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.16Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.17As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.18As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.19Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.20Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.21But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.24My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.25I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.26Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:27That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.28Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.29Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.30I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.31For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

King James Version (1769)

Other translations

VerseKJVBSBASV
17As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.

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Original Hebrew words

EnglishHebrewSay itStrong'sMeaning
and he lovedוַיֶּאֱהַ֣בvai-ye-'e-HAVH0157G
to love: lover

אָהֵב (a.hav) : lover 1) to love 1a) (Qal) 1a1) human love for another, includes family, and sexual 1a2) human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom 1a3) human love for or to God 1a4) act of being a friend 1a4a) lover (participle) 1a4b) friend (participle) 1a5) God's love toward man 1a5a) to individual men 1a5b) to people Israel 1a5c) to righteousness 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) lovely (participle) 1b2) loveable (participle) 1c) (Piel) 1c1) friends 1c2) lovers (fig. of adulterers) 2) to like Also means: a.hav (אָהֵב ": friend" H0157H)

a curseקְ֭לָלָהKE-la-lahH7045
curse

קְלָלָה (qe.la.lah) curse, vilification, execration

and it came to himוַתְּבוֹאֵ֑הוּva-te-vo-'E-huH0935G
to come (in): come

בּוֹא (bo) : come/go_in 1) to go in, enter, come, go, come in 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to enter, come in 1a2) to come 1a2a) to come with 1a2b) to come upon, fall or light upon, attack (enemy) 1a2c) to come to pass 1a3) to attain to 1a4) to be enumerated 1a5) to go 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to lead in 1b2) to carry in 1b3) to bring in, cause to come in, gather, cause to come, bring near, bring against, bring upon 1b4) to bring to pass 1c) (Hophal) 1c1) to be brought, brought in 1c2) to be introduced, be put

and notוְֽלֹא־ve-lo'-H3808
not

לֹא (lo) 1) not, no 1a) not (with verb-absolute prohibition) 1b) not (with modifier-negation) 1c) nothing (subst) 1d) without (with particle) 1e) before (of time) Aramaic equivalent: la (לָא "not" H3809)

he delightedחָפֵ֥ץcha-FETZH2654A
to delight in

חָפֵץ (cha.phets) 1) to delight in, take pleasure in, desire, be pleased with 1a) (Qal) 1a1) of men 1a1a) to take pleasure in, delight in 1a1b) to delight, desire, be pleased to do 1a2) of God 1a2a) to delight in, have pleasure in 1a2b) to be pleased to do

in blessingבִּ֝בְרָכָ֗הbiv-ra-KHAHH1293
blessing

בְּרָכָה (be.ra.khah) 1) blessing 2) (source of) blessing 3) blessing, prosperity 4) blessing, praise of God 5) a gift, present 6) treaty of peace

and it was farוַתִּרְחַ֥קva-tir-CHAKH7368
to remove

רָחַק (ra.chaq) v 1) to be or become far, be or become distant, be removed, go far away 1a) (Qal) to be far, be distant 1b) (Piel) to send far away, extend 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to make or exhibit distance, be gone far 1c2) to remove, put far away 2) (Niphal) loose v inf (as adv) 3) at a distance

from himמִמֶּֽנּוּ׃mi-ME-nuH4480A
from

מִן־ (min) prep 1) from, out of, on account of, off, on the side of, since, above, than, so that not, more than 1a) from (expressing separation), off, on the side of 1b) out of 1b1) (with verbs of proceeding, removing, expelling) 1b2) (of material from which something is made) 1b3) (of source or origin) 1c) out of, some of, from (partitively) 1d) from, since, after (of time) 1e) than, more than (in comparison) 1f) from...even to, both...and, either...or 1g) than, more than, too much for (in comparisons) 1h) from, on account of, through, because (with infinitive) conj 2) that …

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